There were not many people on the bus along the way. Only a few people were standing in the bus. Some of the people sitting on the bus were drowsy, while others were playing with their phones.
Inside the bus, only the sound of the TV was echoing in the bus, broadcasting news and advertisements.
"… Today, a murder case happened in the underground cold storage of the Lingshi Building. When our reporter arrived, the police had already set up a cordon outside the building. According to the police, a security guard in the underground cold storage of the building has been killed. After the police checked the surveillance footage, they found that the owner of the underground cold storage, Gao Qingshan, committed the murder with a gun. The reason for the murder may be a labor dispute. The police have issued a warrant for arrest. If any enthusiastic citizens find useful clues, they can call the police and the police will offer a reward of 100,000 yuan …"
Xia Pingan, who was sitting in the back of the bus, looked up at the TV in front of him. The photo of a middle-aged man in his 40s with gloomy eyes, fat eyes, and a slightly bald face appeared on the TV. Under the photo, there was a reward of 100,000 yuan.
The National Committee of Order and the Demon's Eye formed by the corpses in the underground cold storage did not appear on the news.
People who watched the news thought that this was a bad criminal case.
Xia Pingan noticed that when the news was broadcasted, most of the people in the bus just looked up at the beautiful female reporter on the TV screen in the bus. No one cared.
Perhaps this was the best for ordinary people.
If the bloody and terrifying scene in the underground cold storage appeared on TV, most people would not be able to sleep well at night. No one would dare to go out at night.
They arrived at the bus stop. Not far from the community where Xia Pingan rented, Xia Pingan got off the bus.
There was a fresh supermarket outside. After getting off the bus, Xia Pingan went straight into the supermarket and bought some vegetables.
Ten minutes later, Xia Pingan walked out of the fresh supermarket. The shopping bag in his hand was already filled with the things he had bought. Hoof tendons, sea cucumbers, mushrooms, abalone, shark fin, chicken, shrimp, and some fresh vegetables.
These ingredients cost more than 300 yuan.
Carrying his stuff, Xia Pingan walked straight to his apartment. As he entered the apartment, the security guard who was watching TV in the reception room downstairs glanced at Xia Pingan and continued watching TV.
Everything in the corridor was the same as before. Xia Pingan came to the door of the top floor. Just as he was about to take out his key, he realized that the lock on the security door of his rented room had been changed.
The previous lock was no longer there. The new lock was shiny, but Xia Pingan's key could no longer be inserted.
F * ck!
Uncle Hong would not change the lock. If he wanted to change the lock, he would have to tell him. This was something that Xingdong would do.
Because on the security door, there was a small card with transparent tape. On the small card, there was a line of words: New landlord's phone number 138XXXXX. Tenants of this house, please contact the new landlord to get the key.
Xia Pingan hung the shopping bag in his hand on the railing of the stairs, took out his phone, and called the new landlord.
The phone was dialed, but the line was not busy. However, after waiting for more than ten seconds, a middle-aged woman's voice appeared on the phone. "Hello, who is this?"
"Hello, I am the tenant who previously rented Uncle Hong's apartment. You changed the lock, so I can't get in now. Can you come over and open the lock?"
"Oh, you are that Xia Pingan …" The woman on the phone called out Xia Pingan's name. Her tone was a bit vulgar and rude.
"Yes, I am Xia Pingan!"
"The apartment you are renting now belongs to my family. I will be the landlord from now on!" The middle-aged woman's voice was triumphant. Like a machine gun, she did not give Ping An a chance to speak at all. "I changed the lock. From this month onwards, the rent will be increased to 3,800 yuan per month. Your previous contract does not count. The contract will be renewed. If you don't want to live here, you can move out …"
Xia Pingan frowned slightly. The same apartment in this community cost about 3,200 to 3,300 yuan per month. That was the result of Uncle Hong not willing to increase the rent, and Xia Pingan himself took the initiative to increase the rent several times.
Looking at the new lock and listening to the woman's voice on the phone, Xia Pingan suppressed the discomfort in his heart. However, he still said calmly, "I haven't seen the new contract yet. Let me take a look first. I am going home now. Can you give me the key first?"
"Okay, wait for me!" The woman hung up the phone rudely.
Xia Pingan could only wait at the door of the apartment.
Xia Pingan could open the lock without the key. However, it would be troublesome to open it at this time. Therefore, he temporarily waited at the door.
Twenty minutes later, footsteps came from downstairs. It was Xia Ning who came back first.
Xia Ning was wearing a yellow cartoon hat, jeans, a white shirt, and a knitted jacket. He was carrying a backpack. He was youthful, beautiful, and full of vitality.
"Brother, why are you at the door? Did you lose the key?" Xia Ning asked.
"Uncle Hong is going back to the countryside to retire. He sold the apartment. The new landlord changed the lock!" Xia Pingan said helplessly.
"Ah, why didn't the new landlord inform us that he changed the lock? He had to wait until we were there to change the lock. We were not at home. How could they go in? What if we lost our things?" Seeing the small note on the security door, Xia Ning was very angry.
Just from this matter, Xia Ning felt that the new landlord did not respect him. This matter was not serious. The new landlord just changed the lock. However, if it was serious, it was trespassing. Xia Pingan and Uncle Hong's lease contract was still there. They were still in the lease period stipulated in the contract.
The two siblings could only continue to wait at the door. Xia Ning asked about Xia Pingan's new job.
"The salary is not bad, but I might not be able to go home every weekend in the future …"
Xia Pingan did not tell Xia Ning that he was already a summoner. He felt that this news would have a big impact on Xia Ning. Moreover, the Committee of Order's summoners had been exaggerated by those movies and TV series. They gave people the impression that they were on the verge of life and death every day, dealing with all kinds of monsters. Although that was the truth, and it was even more exaggerated and dangerous than the movies and TV series.
Xia Pingan did not want Xia Ning to be too worried, so he only played it down. He wanted Xia Ning to think that he was only using his remote vision ability to serve the Committee of Order.
The two siblings waited at the door for more than ten minutes. The sky gradually darkened.
Xia Pingan made another call to the new house, and it was still the woman who answered the phone.
"Why are you rushing me? I'll come after dinner …" The woman said and hung up the phone.
"Let's go out for dinner tonight. We'll come back after dinner …" Xia Pingan smiled apologetically at Xia Ning.
"But I want to eat brother's fragrant pot soup. I haven't eaten it for a long time!" Xia Ning looked at the ingredients that Xia Pingan bought and could not help but swallow his saliva. "Brother, your soup is the best. No one can compare to it …"
The fragrant pot soup that Xia Ning mentioned was the "Buddha Jumps Over The Wall" that Xia Pingan made. However, there was no "Buddha Jumps Over The Wall" in this world. There was only the "fragrant pot soup" that Xia Ning mentioned.
"Anyway, it won't be good today. It will take a day or two to soak in the water. We don't know when the new landlord will come. Let's not wait here foolishly. Let's fill our stomachs first. We can also eat delicious food outside!"
"Okay!" Xia Ning laughed again and hugged Xia Pingan's arm. "Let's celebrate your new job and becoming a civil servant …"
Xia Ning, who was hugging Xia Pingan's arm, felt that there was something hard under Xia Pingan's clothes. He asked, "Brother, what are you carrying with you? Why is it so hard?"
It was Xia Pingan's gun!
The whole city was full of danger. Since he could bring a gun back, Xia Pingan did the same.
In addition to the gun, he also carried the "Reporter's Certificate" that he and An Qing carried when they went out today. He had not put it back in the office yet.
"That's your brother's work item. It's from the Committee of Order. It's confidential. Let's go …" Xia Pingan smiled and did not say much. He hung the ingredients at the door and went downstairs with Xia Ning.
Xia Ning did not ask any more questions.
The two of them found a good restaurant outside the community and had dinner to celebrate Xia Pingan's new job.
After dinner, it was already past 8 o 'clock in the evening. The two of them slowly returned to the community.
Just as they reached the entrance of the community, Xia Pingan's phone rang. He looked at the phone number and saw that it was the new landlord.
Xia Pingan picked up the phone.
"Where are you? Where did you go? We're here. Where did you go?" The woman was aggressive on the phone.
"I'm downstairs in the community. I'm coming up now …"
"Hmph, hurry up. We have to go back after signing the contract and paying. Don't waste our time …" The woman hung up the phone again.
Xia Pingan and Xia Ning returned to the house and found that the door was already open. The lights in the house were on and the door was wide open.
The ingredients that Xia Pingan had hung outside the door were also rummaged through. The things that were originally neatly arranged in the bag were now in a mess.
Xia Ning bit his lips and glanced at Xia Pingan. He silently took the bag of ingredients that Xia Pingan bought and entered the house.
Two people were watching TV in the house. They were a man and a woman. They looked like a couple.
One of them was a middle-aged woman with a fat body and a fat face. She wore heavy makeup and looked somewhat sharp and shrewd. The other was a middle-aged man in his forties. He had a big waist and a buzz cut. The middle-aged man was wearing a T-shirt. Half of his arms were exposed and colorful tattoos could be seen.
The man was sitting on the sofa and smoking a cigarette. He looked like a mountain eagle. The ashes of his cigarette casually fell onto the floor of the living room.
The floor of the originally clean house was now covered with messy footprints.
Many things in the house seemed to have been touched. The paintings that Xia Ning had hung on the wall of the living room were gone. The wall was empty.
Seeing that his paintings were gone, Xia Ning's face changed. He put the ingredients in the kitchen and came to the living room. "Where are my paintings?"
The middle-aged woman glanced at Xia Ning and said sharply, "Little girl, don't you know how to talk? What paintings? The furniture in this house belongs to our family. We have already bought it. You are just renting the house. How can there be anything that belongs to you?"
"That painting is mine …" Xia Ning bit her lips.
The paintings hanging in the house were all painted by Xia Ning. Each painting contained the story and memories of her and Xia Pingan. Those were the most precious memories of the two siblings.
Xia Pingan glanced around the house and found that even the things in the siblings' bedroom had been turned over. He came to the living room with a cold face and looked at the two new landlords. "That painting was painted by my sister. It doesn't belong to the landlords. Return the painting. We don't want to rent it anymore. We want to move out!"
"You must be Xia Pingan!" The woman glanced at Xia Pingan and began to act shamelessly. "What painting? I didn't see it …"
At this moment, Xia Ning thought of something. His face changed and he quickly opened a drawer in the living room. The things in the drawer had been rummaged through. Xia Ning took out the box where the siblings kept their money at home.
When he opened the box, it was empty. The money that was previously placed in the box was all gone …
"Brother, our money is gone …" Xia Ning felt so wronged that he almost cried. The money in the box was their living expenses. There was also the money that Xia Pingan had left for Xia Ning's summer vacation and pocket money. The total was about twenty-seven thousand yuan.
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